Tuesday, February 2, 2016

SPIRITUAL EXPLORATIONS -- 63

WE ARE EXPLORING THE PRACTICE
OF HUMILITY

+ [Ramakrishna said] ‘Adore and honor yourself
humbly as my child.’ Not as your small self, not as your ego, not the false
self, the constructed self, the biographical self, the self that wants power,
but as the Divine Self, the Divine Child who through love, through adoration of
the Mother and of each being as the child of the Mother, develops the awakened
mystic senses of divine childhood. Honor yourself humbly as my child. Worship
the body in which you are having this experience. Protect it. Worship your
hair, your knuckles, your feet, and the strange little bones you have in secret
places. Bless each aspect of your being, including those aspects that you have
been taught to feel ashamed of. Bless them, release them all into the light and
embrace of the Mother. Adore yourself, honor yourself, revere yourself. Salute
yourself. Bow down to her in you, and to the divine childhood in you that is
waiting to be born.

+ Adore yourself?
Honor yourself? Is this what
humility is about? YES.

But remember what Max Wertheimer, a pioneer of Gestalt
Psychology said: “An adult is a deteriorated child.” It is essential that we
return to our original state of divine simplicity. As we continue to practice, practice,
practice stillness and detachment, we return to our
authentic or real self. Humility is the practice of
being real, being honest, being sincere, being compassionate, being childlike.